MissileMan
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GotZoom said:Waaaay too long to cut and past in a post; you'll have to go to the link.
Carbon Dating - http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/carbon_dating.asp
Again, it's creationists that allege that the dating MAY be wrong. Where is the scientific evidence that isotopic dating is 100% off the mark in every case? It's generally accepted as an accurate dating method by most everyone except creationists.
GotZoom said:Dinosaurs - http://www.contenderministries.org/evolution/dinosaurs.php
From Dinosaurs - the Bible references a "dinosaur":
One of the oldest books of the Bible Job mentions creatures that were most likely dinosaurs. The book of Job was probably written around 2,000 years before Jesus was born. The Bible's best description of a dinosaur-like animal is recorded in Job chapter 40. "Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. He ranks first among the works of God..."(Job 40:15-19) The behemoth were not afraid. They did not need to be; they were huge. Their tails were so long and strong that God compared them to cedars - one of the largest and most spectacular trees of the ancient world. Some Bible scholars think this passage refers to elephants or hippopotami. This is incongruent with the description though, as elephants and hippopotami have tails like ropes or cords, not like cedars as described in Job. The next chapter of Job talks about another huge, fierce animal a sea monster named Leviathan. It was not a whale or crocodile, because the Hebrew language had other words to describe such animals. Leviathan may be a plesiosaur a large, seagoing reptile that evolutionists say became extinct 60 million years before man evolved.
I read that the word translated as "tail" was actually the Jewish word for "penis" and this same passage also makes referrence to it's stones. The behemoth was, more than likely, a well-hung hippo. In all honesty, stories of dragons and sea-monsters in the Bible are unremarkable. The belief that the world was flat, that the sea was full of monsters, and there were dragons in need of a knightly slaying endured for thousands of years after these people put pen to parchment or papyrus. It's no more believable than Scylla or Charybdis from the Odyssey.